When Bad is Really Good

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Ayelet Waldman’s presentation Tuesday eve was terrific. She read from the new bestselling book and talked about FAILURE. And guess what … it was enlightening and uplifting. I love a…

Travel and Song

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It has actually taken weeks to come down to earth after the Book Passage Travel Writers and Photographers Conference this year. I don’t know how it happens … maybe it’s…

Wipe Outs

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Linda Watanabe McFerrin If you didn’t make it to the Ferry Plaza on Monday, you really missed out. Four excellent writers shared stories of Wipe Outs. One of them was…

Ted Weinstein

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Ted is a San Francisco-based literary agent and a member of the Association of Authors’ Representatives, Ted represents a wide range of journalists, scholars and other authors of intelligent, adult…

Ayelet Waldman

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Ayelet Waldman’s mystery series, the Mommy-Track Mysteries, published by Berkley Prime Crime, a division of Penguin Putnam, draws on her experience of the sunny SoCal world of mall-hopping and Mommy-and-Me,…

Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston

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Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, the daughter of first- and second-generation Japanese-American parents, was born in 1934 in Inglewood, California. During World War II, when more than 110,000 Japanese-Americans were interned in…

Gail Tsukiyama

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Gail Tsukiyama was born in San Francisco, California to a Chinese mother from Hong Kong and a Japanese father from Hawaii. She attended San Francisco State University where she received…

Charles E. Toombs

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Charles E. Toombs practices in the areas of tax, business and real estate law.  He counsels clients in different areas of sophisticated tax planning for their business and investments.  He…

Michael Shapiro

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For two years, Michael Shapiro roamed the world interviewing leading travel writers where they live. He met Jan Morris in Wales, Tim Cahill in Montana, Frances Mayes in Tuscany, and…